Report: Microsoft Approaching iPhone App Developers for Zune HD

Microsoft really wants a piece of the iPod Touch. Really, really bad. In fact, it seems that the company is apparently approaching iPhone app developers to create games and apps for its forthcoming Zune HD.

Microsoft really wants a piece of the iPod Touch. Really, really bad. In fact, it seems that the company is apparently approaching iPhone app developers to create games and apps for its forthcoming Zune HD.

"I got an email from the developer of an iPhone Twitter client," writes John Gruber on Daring Fireball. "He was contacted by Microsoft a few months ago, with an offer to port his app to the Zune in exchange for 'a bucket of money.' He turned them down, but assumes, as I do, that Microsoft reached out to the developers of multiple popular iPhone apps."

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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